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Hope Springs Infernal |
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January 4, 2012. A Lexington man is accused trying to use a fake $1 million bill to pay for his purchases at a Walmart. Michael Anthony Fuller, 53, of 3 Parker St., walked into the Walmart on Lowes Boulevard in Lexington on Nov. 17. He shopped for a while, picking up a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other merchandise, totaling $476, an arrest warrant says. When he got to the register, Fuller gave the cashier the phony bill, saying that it was real. So, where do we stand at the dawn of 2012? Better ...
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The Touch That Topples Man and Rock |
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The Touch That Topples Man and Rock. March 16, 2012. Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. 8212; August Strindberg, A Dream Play. Yet with petty misery. At heart, a petty misery,. Ever the prelude to your end,. The touch that topples man and rock. 8212; Wallace Stevens, The Man With The Blue Guitar (1937). When Inez came downstairs at 3 AM to find me sobbing uncontrollably and incapable of explaining ...
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R.I.P. Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues’ |
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RIP Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues’. January 21, 2012. Johnny Otis, the musician, bandleader, songwriter, impresario, disc jockey and talent scout who was often called the godfather of rhythm and blues, died on Tuesday at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 90. At Mr Otis’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, Ms. James referred to him as her guru. (He received similar honors from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the Blues Foundation.). Despite being a mover and shaker i...
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January | 2012 |
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Archive for January, 2012. January 23, 2012. Break Me In Pieces With Words. January 21, 2012. RIP Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues’. January 9, 2012. Everything Must Fuckin’ Go…. January 4, 2012. Perhaps A Great Age. The Touch That Topples Man and Rock. The Brutish Bile Of Britain’s Worst Newspaper. Break Me In Pieces With Words. RIP Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues’. Everything Must Fuckin’ Go…. There Is No Sanity Clause. I Listen To Money Singing. Come Fly With Me.
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I Listen To Money Singing |
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I Listen To Money Singing. December 17, 2011. I listen to money singing. It’s like looking down. From long french windows at a provincial town,. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad. In the evening sun. It is intensely sad. Thinking about the insanity of Capitalism as it stands today is enough to drive you, gibbering and tearing out your hair, into an early grave. The whole set-up verges on the surreal. Verges? What am I saying? Faced with the same task today, I suspect that even Miller, a h...
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Autumnal Procrastination Post |
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October 24, 2011. Late Autumn In Venice. The city floats no longer like a bait. To hook the nimble darting summer days. The glazed and brittle palaces pulsate and radiate. And glitter. Summer’s garden sways,. A heap of marionettes hanging down and dangled,. Leaves tired, torn, turned upside down and strangled:. Until from forest depths, from bony leafless trees. A will wakens: the admiral, lolling long at ease,. Has been commanded, overnight — suddenly –:. In the first dawn, all galleys put to sea! Late ...
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Perhaps A Great Age |
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Perhaps A Great Age. March 18, 2012. A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. 8212; Ezra Pound. The ever-wise Inez, seeing that I’m in a near-fluent frame of mind at the moment, urged me to return to the practice of encouraging you all to try your hands at translations again. More fodder for Perp Walk. So here’s one from me:. La chair est triste, hélas! Et j’ai lu tous les livres. Je sens que des oiseaux sont ivres. D’être parmi l’écume inconnue et les cieux! Guarded again...
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Come Fly With Me |
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Come Fly With Me. November 19, 2011. I watched the first 5 or 6 episodes of the new US TV drama. But gave up on it because, frankly: it’s absolute crap. Glossy soap-opera for easy-to-please nostalgics and the credulous young. This sort of infantile, trolly-dolly romance was being written in the 40s, 50s and 60s — Shirley Flight: Air Hostess. Was the British version; Vicki Barr: Flight Stewardess. The American– and the genre hasn’t improved with age. The stewardesses would all come over to gaze at this mo...
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There Is No Sanity Clause |
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There Is No Sanity Clause. December 23, 2011. So, another year of good conversation and good verse comes to an end. Three years; who imagined it would last this long? Thanks to all of you. Have an enjoyable Festivus and we’ll meet again in the new year…same time, same place; you’ll know me because I’ll be wearing a red rose in my button-hole and carrying a copy of. The Collected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Pull a cork, kindle lo...
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Break Me In Pieces With Words |
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Break Me In Pieces With Words. January 23, 2012. How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 8212; Job 19:2, The King James Bible. I’ve decided to conduct a little experiment. I was inspired by a news story in The Grauniad about a writer of ebooks who had just sold her millionth ebook. However, all was not leeches and cream in the world of self-published ebooks. According to The Grauniad:. That last line is a beauty: “. The novel cannot be classed as literary…. A “…. So, I did a litt...